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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.
« on: July 18, 2016, 12:59:10 pm »Since apparently I am the kind of person to explain my jokes, it's this: Mine is to Mint as Squire is to...
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Since apparently I am the kind of person to explain my jokes, it's this: Mine is to Mint as Squire is to...
Well, this seems to be going well so far.
But I think any rational person that had gotten hammered over videotaping an opponents practice
Cards you hate keeps coming up on my refresh so I finally will add one:
Loan. Hate that card.
I don't like Loan either but you can bet I'll go for it anyway on an engine board without other trashing. I once made a deck that consisted almost exclusively of Loans and Bakers and won. But there wasn't much else going on in the Kingdom, as you might imagine.
The very fact that loan is sometimes necessary is what makes me dislike it. No other trasher feels as terrible to play as loan, especially in any kingdom where realistically you are going to need at least one other treasure to hit 5 a few times and get going. Loan hitting silver when there is a 7/8 chance for it to hit copper feels a lot like someone sea hagging your sea hag, but technically you did it to yourself, which makes it just that much worse
Lookout is similar - maybe worse. It's often the strongest trashing option and not ignorable, but it's just not fun. It's uncomfortable to play, and when it ends up being a self-attack it's highly irritating.
I dispute this.
Early, as in the first few shuffles, lookout is completely safe. Later, you just need to play lookout carefully. If you get it early in the shuffle and have 3+ good cards and say less than six junk cards, just don't play it. If you're drawing your deck, a lot of times you can stop when you have 1-3 cards left, think through what they are, and, if the answer is one of them is a stray copper or what have you, you can still play lookout safely. I often go double lookout for this reason, because soon one can trash the other.
Loan otherwise plays similarly, but in my experience the tricks you can use to make sure it hits copper are considerably fewer, it doesn't work at all in a deck drawing engine without discard support, its terrible for cursing slogs, leaves your estates behind like little presents and for all this disadvantage its one advantage over lookout is that it produces a single coin, the very value of that which it is bought to eliminate from your deck.
So to me, they are not even in the same class.
But it does feel good to say all this. What a fine thread!
Cards you hate keeps coming up on my refresh so I finally will add one:
Loan. Hate that card.
I don't like Loan either but you can bet I'll go for it anyway on an engine board without other trashing. I once made a deck that consisted almost exclusively of Loans and Bakers and won. But there wasn't much else going on in the Kingdom, as you might imagine.
The very fact that loan is sometimes necessary is what makes me dislike it. No other trasher feels as terrible to play as loan, especially in any kingdom where realistically you are going to need at least one other treasure to hit 5 a few times and get going. Loan hitting silver when there is a 7/8 chance for it to hit copper feels a lot like someone sea hagging your sea hag, but technically you did it to yourself, which makes it just that much worse
bug: if you use Forge to gain an Ill-Gotten-Gains, your opponent will not gain a Curse.
Same with Altar.
Well, normally your opponents don't gain a Curse when you use Forge to gain an Altar.
I feel like it shouldn't be the top two A's playing. They already played each other this season. It should be the top A and top B. And if so then obv. the score is just for that match rather than adding in how they did over the season. It could also be a little tournament among division winners although that takes longer.
I mean winning A just means you won A. No-one outside of A got to play you. You put in whatever work to get to A in previous seasons, but now, this past season, you just played other A's. So playing the winning B feels more like you are a champion; you beat the guy who beat those other guys.
By the way, "Connect Four has it's own flag" is grammatically incorrect and isn't the abreviation of something that is grammatically correct.
Is gokosalvager.com down?
I was playing a game on Goko where my opponent afterwards accused me of not resigning against an obviously better player and just dragging the game out in the hope he would resign out of boredom.
If you play Wharf on turn 1, Chapel is guaranteed to miss the reshuffle (or be drawn dead).
Oh my God!!!
How did you manage to make it THAT far through this video??
I already called put exactly this scenario as a potential solution that actually doesn't work.
For Lose Track rule purposes, do cards generally expect to find themselves in play?
Not as a general rule, but if a card plays another card and then does something else with it (for example, Procession) then it will always expect to find it in play when it does the second thing.
So I usually hesitate to say this for these sorts of brain teasers, but I'm actually pretty sure this is impossible. I mean, once it's there there's no way to get it back. It's no longer the Reserve it was played as, so it can't just be called, and there's no card that interacts with a general card on your Tavern mat, so it's not like there's any other card that can take it off. And there's no way to use Procession or a similar card to put it on the Tavern mat and then immediately move it because the card in question is guaranteed to lose track of it in that situation, is it not? I'd love to be proved wrong, but I'm pretty sure those two rules would rule out any possible solution to this puzzle.
edit: gender (Sorry!)
Why doesn't exchanging cause you to gain the new cards? Is it to lower their power level by removing Royal Seal, Traveling Fair, or Watchtower combos? Or did you feel like it would be simpler to just not have it gaining?
For me it feels more like the character is simply improving, not turning into a different character. Gaining would feel like I'm getting something different.